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From: Nick Gotsinas <darf@gameforce.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:56:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4148690D-7003-47D2-A7DC-1E76CF0A0CEC@gameforce.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMpmEiFHH6cRv1GhOHSonc67hKvPnthLLZWtyWCJLV9SptiShA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during boot? 

I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just fine on my MacBook.

I also have Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make sure you partition with Guid

On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to
> get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick
> (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't
> know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In
> other computers without a Mac bios, it is a matter of changing the
> boot device order to the usb port. I don't know if such a thing exists
> in a Mac. If you have a gentoo mac I would appreciate inputs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Valmor
> 




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-24 21:36 [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-24 22:33 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-25  6:27   ` Stroller
2011-08-25 15:06     ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25 16:21       ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25 17:50         ` [SOLVED] " Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-24 22:56 ` Nick Gotsinas [this message]
2011-08-24 23:39   ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25  0:33     ` Valmor de Almeida

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